dollars per song so u.s. district judge michael davis decided to step in and he overruled the jury's judgment davis said their decision was so severe and oppressive as to be wholly disproportionate to the offense and obviously unreasonable and that is a quote so rather than the one point five million dollars fine the woman will only be shelling out while still a lot of fifty four thousand dollars for all twenty four songs but let's put that into a comparison under the original ruling by the jury thomas ross that was going to pay sixty two thousand dollars for each song he downloaded but after judge davis intervened they'll only pay two thousand dollars per track and to be very clear that's still a very hefty price but it proves there are more reasonable individuals in this world who agree that nobody should be forced into the poor house for downloading a few songs and it's become clear that the record industry is out for blood and they want revenge on the millions of people who found ways to avoid paying for their media so they god there are judges out there like judge michael davis who thinks the outrageous fines pursued by the are i or about maybe as ridiculous as we

do although we would have given a fifty four thousand dollar fine but for giving our i slap across the face we'd say judge davis is a true glimmer of hope. now all over the world people are desperately searching for help between the tragedy a tragedy in norway as we saw on friday the protests underway in spain over the economy or the outcry in israel over the outrageous housing prices everyone is searching for help taking the streets to try and do something well perhaps they should look to san diego california where superheroes are stuck to the max at comic-con and although these heroes don't exist in the real world many people come from across the globe to forget their troubles and engage in a world where the biggest threat comes from a super villain not the government or to enjoy the more frivolous pursuits rather than face the world's problems head on and try to solve or challenge them but you can decide that for our parties or moan glinda takes us on

a quest and hopes of finding a real life superhero to escape all troubles at comic-con. while bombs explode and thousands of american troops continue to fight in the country's longest war another battle is happening here at home oh. it's a fight against the harsh realities of life. these days you'll never see this many people protesting the wars yet more than one hundred thousand people attended a comic con the world's largest comic book convention this is a costume party on steroids where the world's worries go out the window even how i wish i had was teleportation and who wouldn't want to be memes selves up from the harsh realities of today's america i'm just scared of falling apart in this life is

a joke and it's so let's get a sweet release going. however life is no joke for a large segment of the u.s. population like these people living on the sidewalks just a few blocks from the convention where in sunny san diego california a city known for its beaches and summer attractions it's also an area which is dealing with double digit unemployment and a growing homeless population but instead of focusing on these tough realities of life thousands of people from all over the world have the senate on this city this weekend in order to escape reality what i have are to try to put aside happen or do an hour every day to read a book to escape and you know to escape into a different world i don't have that i probably go crazy and any fears over the economy anything like that you're economy is interesting you know that the the bad land that i come from certainly has a stronger economy despite the distraction that goes with comic con some costume

crusaders do have concerns over where our country is headed some of us think that maybe the apocalypse is coming out and that you're doing things. there goes a i'm not afraid of anything baby while thousands of people celebrate called the con with no fear millions of americans are truly fearful of losing their jobs homes or benefits during this great recession this convention is a place where people can be themselves by acting like someone else. was chris back to work at the antics and well most americans fret about politicians in a billet he took out a deal be impending u.s. debt default easy to come here and take the weekend off and just relax and talk to . any of us do. rather than the dresses captain america america may indeed need a super hero to save the day in said diego. r.

t. . began super as president obama promised he'd be one as far as immigration reform and today he spoke to the largest national latino civil rights and advocacy organization to try and rally hispanic support he spoke to the national council of la raza you know that group is and one thing he didn't mention was a recently released report showing the obama administration has deported nearly four hundred thousand people setting a record according to the associated press president obama has said in the past his policy is to deport the worst of the worst but out of the people deported were considered criminals so that's half and many of those criminals you may not exactly consider the worst of the worst tens of thousands of them have been arrested for drunk driving more than double the number in two thousand and eight under bush and three times the number of traffic violators were deported compared to two years ago now meanwhile immigration reform one of obama's promises in his presidential

campaign has stalled in congress here's what he said course that doesn't mean we don't have unfinished business. i promised you i would work tirelessly to fix our broken immigration system and make the dream act real. here to talk about that is x.l. acaba herro founder director and producer of campaign from brave new foundation thank you for being with us so my first question to you is what leverage does obama have to tout achievements with the latino community as he did today when he hasn't delivered on immigration reform as he promised when latino unemployment is in the double digits and when reports show a record number of immigrants have been deported under his watch. it's a very difficult situation that he's in and it's an uphill battle for sure the problem there we're facing this is stalemate is still made on immigration reform nobody wants to talk about it nobody wants to push for it there's absolutely no

leadership in their congress or the executive level and so he's going to have a hard time convincing routine knows that in fact his record is a positive one having said that though there are some other positive steps that have been taken i think the advances on the dream act particularly have been substantial over the last couple years even though we haven't reached one there certainly positive steps towards more you know obama today said that some believe that he should do more himself to do something about immigration reform and the audience cheered and he said that's not how government works and he kind of blame republicans for the stalls to immigration reform is that a cop out should he be doing more. well there should be leadership on the issue and i think the bad with the latino community is really speaking out on is that there's a lack of leadership nobody wants to take the responsibility to do would be see an immigration reform a political potato that no but hot potato that nobody wants to handle and so when

president obama says to the latino constituents that make him we respond by saying ok we're going to make sure we're definitely put in the pressure but you have to take leadership you have to do it every day every month and every week because if we only hear it when he's courting the latino vote that's going to be his main challenger and his main problem is le bron's of working against their own interests because analysts say that they pretty overwhelmingly support the white house's matchup message on any number of issues and lobby for those so that against their best interest should they not be giving so much support to the obama white house. well i think they're threading a fine line and i think and i think what they're doing is really working both angles i mean their constituents and their supporters really really favor a strong immigration reform but in order to achieve that they have to be quarter with this white house because they need to keep the pressure on both the constituent level at the grassroots level but also at the level of the government

being made the white house by saying you're not doing anything and so therefore we're going to stand back being need to work with the white house and i think the bads were they were doing certainly various other organizations that are taking a bad stance but but you know we do have to remember that there is a congress that is absolutely blocking everything that we see and it's funny that we hear the g.o.p. constantly saying it's like obama's going to have president obama is going to have a very hard time convincing latino voters well that's pretty temperance for barstool because the g.o.p. has done absolutely everything in their ways and means to oppose any any advance on either the dream or immigration you know it's interesting that obama said today that as a result of this doll is an immigration reform that more and more states are taking matters into their own hands which we have seen with a number of immigration laws passed at the state level which is that is not the right thing to do but what our state supposed to do if they're waiting around for

the federal government to act and the government is not. well you know the states what they need to do is take into account a comprehensive immigration reform approach we cannot have been is the interest this extra interest that we're having the big money interests and big private prison interests and big anti immigration interests pushing for these individual laws across the states that's what's filling the void and that's the challenge that that we as organizations and as the latino community have a head of us is to push against those feeling bad boy and and so so in essence what we're seeing is this is sweeping reform across states that are being influenced by big money interests that is where the immigration reform stalls but is. sorry i mean i step on your tongue does an organization like the laws that have a vested financial interest obama's director of enter government out of governmental affairs from the very beginning was previously in the ra's

a senior vice president charge of research advocacy and legislation and during her tenure at the white house it's coincided with a sharp increase in federal funding for a lot of that's according to a recent poll watch investigation so does that solidify the group's advocacy for obama's positions. well. the role of the plaintiffs is a very delicate role because at the same time that they're working with the white house to come out with the strongest ravenshoe they still have a very strong constituency that the nannying action so eventually will raso what they're going to have to do is to answer to their constituents and that's the first and foremost approach that they need to take that is certainly what out there are going to be doing is listening to their supporters and pressure and strongly for that again to reinstate is that what is going to be really hard is to alienate the white house we already have as far as immigration reform a congress that is not working on that issue so therefore we need to continue that

pressure and we will see if that pressure results and any results on immigration reform thank you for giving us your analysis down today. thank you so much for having me on and still the words of wisdom are in donald trump tonight's told time aboard more on that in a moment and then stick around for our monday edition of happy hour it's not too early in the week to enjoy a scientist finally proves you can't go back to the future plus the russian jersey shore is coming to t.v. stick around for some but. just so.

we won't. read you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered in taiwan the te's availability insists the man this time he who turns. twenty feet the how it pulls a hotel tonight be sure to tell if you hotel hotel one show his the groom's photo the show would hotel and some will do mysti type the hotel to the show so photo

from hotel resort evergreens those are totally peak victoria soto's gloria prince photo oil springs resort and spa tied to a hotel while she. you know if you talked to the winston tonight the evergreen plaza hotel in time to tell you that this hotel telling us that it's hard to see points pushers and i would prince or to the splined hotel in touch with the hotel and touch your room or to the group i would international house to chew every green little till. right it's time for tonight's told time award and we are giving it to donald trump the businessman called in to fox and friends this morning to offer some words of wisdom on the debt ceiling debate but the donald actually revealed the real reason

why he thinks the g.o.p. is holding the economy hostage in this debate take a listen to factors or to write the republicans get one hundred percent of what they want but it may include getting rid of obamacare which is a total disaster and they should not make it do you know either that or mine or extension which would take you before the election which would assure that obama doesn't get election which would put electoral which would be great but no you talked about ouch donald trump actually things the g.o.p. should let the u.s. default on its debt so obama won't be reelected because clearly the republicans are not going to get one hundred percent of what they want surely donald trump is not that stupid maybe he just misspoke after all it was early monday morning maybe hadn't had his first cup of coffee yet. unless the republicans makes the real deal now get a hundred percent of what they have to get to make this country great again because right now it is not great then they should do next or should that covers do right

before the election with that obama doesn't get reelected i want to get you are that was a second time trump said it is coffee should have kicked in by then now he's advising the g.o.p. to put the u.s. credit rating in danger all to prevent a second obama term to derail the global markets for this can trump really be that cynical the top two money men in the us right now treasury secretary timothy geithner and fed chairman ben bernanke each have warned the default will be catastrophic for the nation and the world economy if you don't want to trust the government while street has told the g.o.p. a deal has to be made if you don't want to trust bankers we've been warned by credit major credit agencies that our aaa credit rating is in danger of being downgraded if you don't trust ratings agencies while many economists say that if a default takes place the u.s. will have to decide who gets paid and this is not a good thing the president has said that retirement checks and military pay might be in danger interest rates may go up people beyond the president say that that

would mean that car loans and house loans would cost more credit card interest rates would go up to your debt would become a more expensive global market may go reeling the dollar could be hit the american people would without a doubt suffer or could suffer more than they already are but trump think it's all worth it if obama is a real lech did now trump lives in luxury cars that were killed g.b. he'd be just fine probably if the u.s. defaults not the american worker though who would continue to suffer disproportionately and it is sad that we've reach such a place in the national discourse were donald trump who is a millionaire several times over who has bankrupted several companies would feel totally comfortable making such a statement on t.v. . that he's perfectly willing to push the economy off a ledge and risk the health of the u.s. economy as long as obama is gone i guess the birth certificate thing didn't work so this is the second go and that is why we're giving donald trump tonight's tool time

award. all right i made it through the show and now it's time for the fun part joining me for happy hour is our t.v. correspondent christine and reasons and so is back all right so there is a new twitter hash tag which is very popular and it's not justin bieber and it's not some of the other silly ones i saw today it is f. you washington. right it's not spell it out with a we had to blur it out on no it's the real deal and we just wanted to highlight a few of the very special ones that started on saturday and matter of hours thousands of people were using it let's look at those so f. you washington for letting the g.o.p. frame the debate the problem is unemployment not the debt or deficit you lie another person tweeted f. you for using every crisis to make the poor pay for that errors of the rich thereby

creating a third world levels of inequality and someone else said i dedicate this tweet to every working poor republican who fight so millionaires can have a better life f. you washington what you guys think of this not to well before there were like i was i was just surfacing now that all you've done for a long time you know you were only now upset at washington after you know after regulators were a huge part of the whole you to finance a law called killing those rather credit rating agencies we were talking about before look how all of that works out of this that's a good point because you know people have been angry at the government at all the government hasn't worked for a really long time i think it's funny because it's obviously it's a curse word in that sentiment but it's done a lot to bring a lot of people together on this issue i mean everybody who looks for this hash tag you find so many people. who are kind of on your team in their anger at what's going on here in washington so what does that say that they're united over twitter but not out at the white house or in front of the capitol saying this is ridiculous

we demand a better government instead people are just content to tweet about it world people live on the internet these days never the problems is like we're united in frustration of the government they're not you know what they want the government to do or you are showing you know the that we're from more of the left perspective but there's plenty of people on the right that are upset with the government for not sort of screen around these problems as well there's only so much you can happen it's a lot easier and a hundred forty characters or less exact job creators when you say if you washington that could mean the white house that could mean the republicans the democrats and all of us it was their story. and incomes of everybody ok well let's move on to something that may encompass everybody's attention and there is a russian version of what looks like the jersey shore it is starting august eleventh on lifetime mark your calendars and here is the trailer. people when america. great service great i mean i want to forget about what a lot of people getting me they can't. get. all

right you guys mark in your calendar. i think it's so interesting and funny i mean it's definitely a lot like the jersey shore here and i'm going to go ahead and admit this on live television i do watch that it's embarrassing you know you deserve man i know it's embarrassing but it is kind of my little therapeutic time of studying the brain off and laughing and it's really funny i just got into kind of an argument with my producer over this who says this should not be on television at all this is creating bad things for our society to reward people who act like this and become famous and get paid. but i think that the russians are going to like this as much as i like. you think this is going to be what's right and they're going to be outraged. well i think actually the real story here is it's nice to see lifetime sort of branching out because usually lifetime is women getting beaten now it's going to be men and beating women. is all it's all going to be.

like men and tweak coats and former and goddesses that are going to be doing their branching out or they're just succumbing to the need for trashy t.v. material to drive ratings and that's what lifetime even. the bottom line is the jersey shore did phenomenally well the the people on jersey shore make twenty five thousand dollars every time they appear at a bar for like an hour so clearly if you're a business person that in itself i guess could be a reason to replicate what we have yeah and i guess we'll see what prevails the russian spy stereotype that we saw emerge after that scandal quote unquote or the brighton beach russian party or i guess ok let's move on hong kong scientists have proved a very sad thing for many people this my bum you out they found that time travel is possible which means this fantasy probably won't exist in reality that's when the.

more you. should be marking. time. one of my favorite movies from growing up i mean and as a kid you see this movie and you always think you know in some maybe world boat or in just the near future we've invented so much you think that it could be possible i know it's not not the de lorean and not the whatever you know single photon that said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light which was disproved and i'm not a scientist but i think that you could categorically disprove it saying you know you can come back around like over time what someone else can still come here given a. scientist saying this i don't mean it is junk science plenty of people who would have never and maybe would. tried to disprove you know the internet or anything like that but guess what it came anyways i'm not giving up the internet next of time travel or time travel can we just be able to tell puerto selves like a cross

a country like step by step i'd like to be able to get from here to the side of the country in a book about teleporting would be in my mind number one on my legacy teleported myself to the beach this week but i think that's all we have time for i wish we could teleport us up to the beach maybe next time that some research comes out on scientists are wrong that's true thank you very so much for being here and i will next time i was happy hour and that is it for tonight's show thank you for tuning in and make sure to come back tomorrow columbia university psychologist that the pharaoh will be on she's going to talk about research showing that google is making not smarter but. in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the alone our show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other night you can catch it all on youtube dot com slash the alone a show and keep watching are coming up next is i mean first to the man. if you're following up on my.

back and part of. it goes back to a time when people would like out of the forces in the wild west and pick up these future dates and putting them into the sheriff for prosecution i don't think much company may follow. him when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad. would. but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind though there's a two million dollar bill for his arrest. we're not superheroes you can be killed to you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you put it on never go back to know anything else wealthy british scientists on.

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shows. the gateway to the grand imperial truly the george west coast you can a letter to george bush which says don't need to go. read this in the kernel was her job as a retreat. the international atomic agency chief makes his first visit to japan's crippled nuclear plant as the country's nuclear nightmare continues for months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. countdown to crisis president obama appealed to the public to pressure congress into a compromise over its debt ceiling with just a week before potential default. top north korean diplomat is invited to the u.s. for talks in resuming stalled nuclear disarmament to go she just days after and boys from both sides met for the first time in two years.

i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me joshua welcome to the program the head of the international atomic watchdog is visiting japan's fukushima nuclear plant for the first time since march as devastating earthquake and tsunami you can model as promised to help with the recovery effort and we'll meet the country's prime minister to discuss what aid is needed as well as killing thousands of natural disasters caused the plant's reactor cores to melt and leak dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment but the i.a.e.a. chief says the workers at the plant are capable of bringing the leak under control by early next year as planned residents evacuated from a town close to the area held in the late of the morning for the data missing on the radiator no man's land. but even mannie of those who survived are struggling

with their own nuclear nightmare artist john thomas explains. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage and destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people do. but the but the problem is they are a minority they be they have been accused by. their classmates or you know of course by offshore. causing. people. not. primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned as those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor.